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Down in Melville's Great White Whale-which might stand for the tragic tradition that lives pelagically deep under the choppy surface of American life-there may be a Jonah of genius who will one day emerge with a great tragic novel. The critics have been whooping it up in the Malamud salon for so long now that it seemed as if the author of The Fixer might be the man. In his new book, Bernard Malamud retains all the literary expertise and moral concern that has won him his deserved prominence. But he is not Jonah, despite...
...Ketos in Greek means "sea monster" or "sea dragon"; not until the Bible was translated into English did it become a whale...
Tons of Danger. Sunday was a day of pure surrealist chaos. In Sag Harbor, a onetime whaling port, a fake whale was seen floating in the harbor; 15 pretty nurses lay down on three hospital beds set smack in the middle of the highway. But nothing matched the pandemonium on Montauk's bluffs. There the Montauk Fire Department's hoses and two foam makers were turned loose, sending gallons upon gallons of fire-fighting foam billowing down the cliffs. Joined by hardened surfers, who left their boards to join in the fun, Kaprow, like Moses, led his tribes...
...cold winters. "But Russians say it's a dry cold," Crosby adds informatively. So much for insight into the Soviet character. While a multiple sound track booms musical punctuation, the movie visits several dazzling acts at the Moscow Circus, peeks at the shipboard dissection of a giant whale, lingers over the familiar, gravity-defying virtuosity of the Moiseyev dancers and the Bolshoi Ballet...
Oneekatualeeotae. By 1963, Eskimos were running 18 coops, shipping as far south as New York such marketable commodities as frozen char (a delicious fish that tastes like salmon), waterproof sealskin boots, Eskimo handicraft and art. In the Eskimos' own stores, delicacies that they canned themselves-muk-tuk (whale skin), corned and roasted seal meat, sweet-and-sour whale, walrus flippers vinaigrette-now move as briskly as canned ham loaf...